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...turned out, there was a lot the FBI could and should have done. It could have informed the committee, as it did White House Counsel Fred Fielding, that underworld informants had linked Donovan with known mobsters. In addition, FBI agents could have pursued other suggestive leads. They did not until months later, TIME has learned, because Mullen ordered his investigators to ease off Donovan, with what a top FBI official says was the tacit agreement of White House aides. Mullen, now acting director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, says the charges against Donovan were too "nebulous, way out" and "nonspecific...
...confirmation hearings began, an FBI official telephoned Fielding and informed him of "a tape recording" linking Donovan socially with "hoodlums." Fielding insists that he passed along all important information to his superiors, but says the White House was not fazed by the unsubstantiated charges. Counters one senior presidential adviser: "Fred was the only one directly in touch with the FBI investigation...
Others, however, contend the SAT is at least as curriculum-based--and laud the Achievement tests because hard-working students can bring up their scores through intensive work. "The question of personal responsibility" is still open argues L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid. And Christopher Jencks, a testing expert and Northwestern University professor, in a recent article on the SAT Achievement question, contends that "a good college admissions system should encourage diligence rather than sloth...
...surprised if any study found now either that the tests were absolutely reliable or that they were no good at all. L. Fred Jewett...
Given the boost, College officials--even those who maintain there is still more cause for alarm than complacency--sound positively sanguine about the short-term dollar outlook for the fall. Long threatened more by what L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, calls "erosion of fixed incomes" than by specific cuts, Harvard can hope for an easing of aid pressure as the inflation rate inches down; if the pattern continues, the income on the endowment may once again be able to keep pace with costs. The admissions office also stands to gain from the Harvard Campaign...